Fan TV to Send Users Nexus Players

Fan TV is a nifty service. If you want to watch a TV show, you can just do a search and it’ll show you all the available services. It’s easy to search for Mr. Robot and see where you can watch an episode on Live TV, free with ads, or where you can purchase the episode.

What you might not know about the company is that they were making their own hardware. They partnered with Time Warner Cable to start producing set-top boxes. Although they originally had their STB bundled with a cable subscription, that went south when a Comcast-TWC merger was announced.

Plans for a new generation of hardware don’t make much sense. Some complaints about the original was a lack of Netflix. As more developed and popular platforms have been created for the TV, it’s harder for an independent platform to gain a similar number of streaming services.

Fan TV has pivoted to primarily do software. In addition to their web interface, they also have an Android app and now support for Android TV. Like the phone app, you should be able to query a TV show or movie from a number of sources and find which one works best for you. (This is the purpose of the universal search bar on the homescreen, but few apps choose to integrate it.)

Nick Felker is a student Electrical & Computer Engineering student at Rowan University (C/O 2017) and the student IEEE webmaster. When he's not studying, he is a software developer for the web and Android (Felker Tech). He has several open source projects on GitHub (http://github.com/fleker)
Devices: Moto G-2013 Moto G-2015, Moto 360, Google ADT-1, Nexus 7-2013 (x2), Lenovo Laptop, Custom Desktop.
Although he was an intern at Google, the content of this blog is entirely independent and his own thoughts.